The length and breadth of the discussions about Internet anonymity could easily be found if you spend some time with google (”search”, as some folks would say). IMHO, it’s going to increase if the content that’s delivered to the doorsteps gets the blue-pencil treatment.
As the Steisand effect goes, anything that’s going to be censored on the intrawebs is going to get end up being more popular than it was. Blocking a website is so hard to do because there are multiple paths you can follow to get to it. With the addition of various censoring rules in different parts of the world, the number of anonymous proxies has also been increased. You could easily go through a chain of HTTP proxies without making any special alteration/configuration. You could do it in a few keystrokes using your browser. An initiative has been started to document worldwide censoring incidents and discuss the issues to great lengths.
With these censorships, the number of traffic anonymizing services has also been increased and they’re getting easier to use by the day. Speed of these services is also getting better as more people start using them to get through various censoring schemes and to be anonymous on the tubes. Good thing about these services is that even your ISP can’t tell what the hell you’re looking at. Bringing DNS blocking to its knees.
One such famous service is TOR. Apart from some issues TOR is having, it’s very popular and easy to use. Another service of similar nature is JonDo. Like TOR/Privoxy it also relies on a separate proxy which runs on your machine which then encrypt and send all the data. Do use these services if you want to be anonymous or bypass Internet censorships but make sure you do NOT send private/sensitive data off of it.
Posted in anonymity, censorship, jondo, privoxy, tor · August 24th, 2008 · Comments (1)
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